Chedomille Mijatovich, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)
“ Karageorge was one of the most remarkable Servians of the 19th century. No other man could have led the bands of undisciplined and badly-armed Servian peasants to such decisive victories against the Turks. ”
Chedomille Mijatovich, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)
“ His gloomy silence, his easily aroused anger, his habit of punishing without hesitation the slightest transgressions by death, spread terror among the people. He is believed to have killed his own father in a fit of anger when the old man refused to follow him in his flight to Hungary at the beginning of his career. ”
Chedomille Mijatovich, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)
“ The Servians having, in the beginning of the 10th century, successfully cleared Servia of Turks, were emboldened to attack Nish in 1809, but were repulsed with great loss. The Turks raised as a monument of their victory a high tower composed entirely of the heads of the Servians slain in the battle of Nish. ”
